At 96 pages, Word gave up. It decided that my novel had too many spelling errors for it to mark up anymore, and promptly advised me that I was an idiot and should use spell check. Those red squiggles that underline mispelt words then disappeared. How I miss them. 
I don’t actually spell many words wrong, but I do make up a lot of places and names. I’m just too lazy to add those words to Word’s dictionary. Darn Microsoft… .
Anyway, I’m now up to 100 pages and 57,128 words. And my computer should be back by the end of the week. I’m ecstatic! 
Hug me. 
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/me hugs. :P
You‘re lucky Tachyon, I once had a document that word just wouldn’t open any more at all.
To long, with to much compilcated layout stuff in it.
(Go go open office word thing for being able to open it. )
100 pages huh, sounds like your novel is coming along quite fine. 
What is thirteen plus fourteen? 
What is your novel aboot?
My novel’s a fantasy novel. The plot isn’t very original, but I hope to make it quite character driven across a trilogy, the idea being that you grow attached to the characters as you watch them live through tumultous times. 
I want to finish the novel by Christmas (or over Christmas break), but I don’t know how likely that is. Still, I am pretty pumped about having triple-digit pages now. 
Hi there Mr. Tachyon…
Glad to see your novel is progressing along smoothly.
If I may, I thought i would post a link to a nethack discussion group. perhaps all that toiling with a keyboard and a novel might require a break with a challenging game…
http://bbs.tastytronic.net/proj/Tasty%20Blessed%20Gunyoki%20Surprise/
Niiice Tachyon! I wouldn’t be able to go that long, writing something.
When did you start this novel?
The original kernel of the story, including the name of the main character, goes back several years. However, it has changed incarnations at least thrice since then, and the original plot has been modified greatly.
The last incarnation had 75 typed pages to its name and was similar to this one, but there are a lot of differences. For example, I completely got rid of a character and introduced several new ones in this incarnation. I‘m so far along here that I think this is the final incarnation. After I finish it, I’m going to get others to read it over and help me edit it into a final product, and then I’ll send it to a publisher.
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/me has never written anything longer than a 12 page research paper
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Tuesday, December 6, 2005 at 11:51 PM